On Sunday, August 9, eight of us* met at Bethabara Park in Winston-Salem,
traveled on to Reynolda Gardens, an then later to my farm on a brutally hot day
to pursue the 15th annual Forsyth County NABA butterfly count. The day dawned
without a cloud in the sky and I did not see one until about 3pm, when it
reached 93 degrees in the shade. After the rest of us quit, tough troopers Gene
& Lois then went to the south side of the count circle and reported in quite a
few more butterflies. We saw more skipper species and numbers than we did the
previous day on the Surry count, but we did not find several "regulars";
American Lady, Common Checkered Skipper, Red Banded Hairstreak. No new county
records, but we did find & photograph both Northern and Southern Broken Dash,
which are uncommon here. It was damp enough this summer that a number of nectar
sources were available; Butterflyweed, Common Milkweed, Cup Flower, Dogbane,
Heal-all, Indian Paintbrush, Ironweed, Swamp Milkweed, & Wingstem.
1
Black Swallowtail
21 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
4 Spicebush Swallowtail
22 Cabbage White
9 Orange Sulphur
6 Cloudless Sulphur
14 Sleepy Orange
2 Gray Hairstreak
16 Eastern Tailed Blue
4 Azure
3 American Snout
2
Variegated Fritillary
7 Great Spangled Fritillary
1 Silvery Checkerspot
18 Pearl Crescent
3 Questionmark
2 Painted Lady
8 Common Buckeye
2
Red Spotted Purple
2 Hackberry Emperor
2 Northern Pearly Eye
4 Carolina
Satyr
4 Common Wood Nymph
7 Monarch (also one egg on Common Milkweed)
30 Silver Spotted Skipper
4 Horace's Duskywing
3 Zarucco Duskywing
3
Common Sootywing
2 Swarthy Skipper
2 Least Skipper
37 Fiery Skipper
12 Crossline Skipper
2 Southern Broken Dash
1 Northern Broken Dash
5
Little Glassywing
34 Sachem
3 Delaware Skipper
31 Zabulon Skipper
5
Dun Skipper
39 species
338 butterflies
* Dennis Burnette,
Charlie Cameron, Lois Kaufman, David McCloy, Jim Nottke, Elizabeth Riggs, Gene
Schepker, Lois Schneider.
Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC
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